UK Government

The UK Government is to introduce legislation designed to create the right for every household to access high speed broadband, as well as protecting Intellectual Property. The proposals were outlined in the Queen’s Speech summarising the administration’s legislative proposals for the coming parliamentary session. The purpose of the Digital Economy Bill is to make the […]

The UK government has appointed former Virgin Money and Prudential chairman and former Bank of England deputy governor Sir David Clementi to head up an independent review into how the BBC is governed and regulated. The review will form part of the ongoing BBC Charter renewal process. Clementi has been tasked with coming up with […]

The UK government has launched a consultation on plans to increase the maximum sentence for commercial-scale online copyright infringement from two to 10 years imprisonment. Proposals set out in the consultation will bring penalties for online offences into line with equivalent offences relating to the copyright infringement of physical goods. The proposed new measures will […]

The UK Government’s Department for Culture, Media & Sport has today released its long-awaited UK Spectrum Strategy policy paper. The new Spectrum Strategy sets out how they intend to meet the increasing demands for the use of spectrum over the next decade and double spectrum’s contribution to the UK economy by 2025. Spectrum is the […]